Fiat's Mirafiori plant will produce only 30,000 vehicles in 2018
- The Mirafiori Fiat plant (Turin), which started operating just after the Second World War, was intended at the time to significantly increase the production capacity of the Italian manufacturer because the Lingotto plant had insufficient capacity (less than 100 000 units per year) to meet the demand expected in the 1950s.
- The Mirafiori plant reached its peak in the 1960s with a production of one million vehicles a year, mostly 500, 600, 850, 1100, 1300/1500 and 124/125. The Mirafiori plant then rivaled the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, which at that time produced an equivalent volume of production.
- Starting in the 1970s, the production volume of the Mirafiori plant fell rapidly: 800,000 in 1976, 660,000 in 1986, 326,000 in 1996, 226,000 in 2006 and 38,000 in 2016. Production will not exceed 30,000 units in 2018. The reason for this vertiginous drop in production at the Mirafiori site is multiple. The construction of new factories in Rivalta (1968), Termini (1970), Cassino (1972) and Melfi (1993) seems the most obvious explanation. But the decline in sales of the Fiat Group in the 2000s and the relocation of models to eastern European countries (Poland, Turkey, Serbia) also contributed to the marginalization of the Mirafiori plant in the new structure of the Fiat Group's industrial base in Europe. Today, only the Alfa-Romeo Mito and Maserati Levante are produced at Mirafiori.
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